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Moraionism  and  Jesuitism 


ADDRESSES 


AT    THE 


ANNUAL    MEETING    OF    THE 


NEW  WEST  EDUCATION  COMMISSION 


HELD  OCTOBER  14,  1890,  IN  THE  FIRST  CONGREGATIONAL 
CHURCH,  CHICAGO, 


BY 


REV.  F.  W.^GUNSAULUS,  D,  D, 

PASTOR  OF  PLYMOUTH  CHURCH,  CHICAGO 

PROF.  HENRY  E.  GORDON 

PRINCIPAL  OF  TILLOTSON  ACADEMY,  TRINIDAD,  COLORADO 

REV.  W.  F,  SLOCUM 

PRESIDENT  OF  COLORADO  COLLEGE,  COLORADO  SPRINGS,  COL. 


CHICAGO 


Address  bu  Rev,  F,  W,  Gunsaulus,  D,  D,, 


I  rejoice  today,  in  looking  into  these  faces,  that  we  come 
together,  with  a  very  clear  understanding  of  the  triumph  in 
whose  glory  this  Education  Commission  holds  its  anniversary 
meeting.  Never  so  certainly  did  she  stand  in  the  presence  of 
the  problems  of  the  hour,  flushed  with  victory,  as  she  does  at 
this  moment.  Never  so  truly  were  her  foes  ready  either  to 
apologize  for  their  lingering  existence,  or  to  hasten  to  bury 
their  dead,  or  to  make  earnest  protests  against  any  suspicion 
of  disloyalty  on  their  part,  either  to  the  Government  or  to 
Evangelical  Christianity.  It  is  almost  amusing  to  see  the  ra- 
pidity with  which  the  foe  in  the  far  West,  looking  upon  the 
victory  which  has  been  won  by  this  and  kindred  associations, 
proposes  to  itself  the  task  of  convincing  the  loyal  and  Chris- 
tian people  of  the  East  that  all  the  time  they  have  been  at 
heart  loyal,  and  that  ever  hereafter,  in  looking  for  those  per- 
sons who  are  to  defend  the  flag  or  the  cross,  we  must  look 
for  their  sympathy  upon  those  fields  which  they  have  so  stub- 
bornly contested. 

The  very  field  on  which  this  fight  has  been  waged  is  a 
field  of  such  dimensions  and  of  such  character  that  we  can 
easily  see  that  it  has  lent,  even  to  the  fight  itself,  something 
of  the  quality  of  richness,  and  something  of  the  fierceness  and 
stubbornness  of  those  who  are  already  occupying  that  terri- 
tory. No  one  who  has  had  the  happiness  of  passing  over  that 
district  of  the  American  continent,  as  I  have  had  twice  within 
the  last  365  days,  can  help  but  feel  that  the  very  richness  of 
the  territory  adds  strength  of  interest  to  each  side,  and  that 
each  of  the  armies  has  fought  with  the  consciousness  of  how 
valuable  at  some  time  would  be  the  possession  of  every  acre 

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of  that  vast  area.  It  is  an  area,  as  you  know,  so  united  with 
every  material  interest,  as  to  make  those  who  are  looking,  as 
most  Western  people  are,  for  opportunities  to  enrich  them- 
selves, very  greedy  of-  the  territory  itself.  Never  until  within 
the  present  year  has  there  been  such  a  revelation  of  its  ex- 
ceeding wealth,  and  never  until  within  the  last  six  months 
have  there  been  such  just  conceptions  of  the  agricultural  fu- 
ture of  this  vast  region. 

If  you  will  look  over  the  acts  of  Congress  within  the  last 
year  and  a  half,  you  will  readily  come  to  the  conclusion  that 
the  greatest  question  of  growing  importance,  is  the  question  of 
the  use  of  lands  in  the  West  to  be  redeemed  by  irrigation.  It 
is  a  question  which  has  had  to  do  with  an  area  out  of  all  pro- 
portions large  above  the  thought  of  the  American  citizen. 
The  discussion  of  the  question  has  opened  before  Congress  an 
area  so  rich,  so  vast,  as  that  no  single  other  district  on  the 
American  continent  compares  with  it  in  possibility.  So  cer- 
tainly rich  has  been  this  area,  so  crowded  with  agricultural 
possibilities  seem  to  be  all  these  counties  in  those  territories 
in  the  West,  that  the  cupidity  of  mankind  has  been  aroused  in 
England  and  Holland  and  France  and  Germany ;  and  no  one 
can  visit  the  region  in  which  the  New  West  Education  Com- 
mission has  set  itself  to  the  task  of  dominating  material  inter- 
ests with  intelligence  and  with  religion,  without  feeling  that 
many  of  all  the  certainly  attractive  features  of  our  whole  con- 
tinent are  there."  So  truly  has  Congress  found  this  so,  that 
throughout  the  entire  spring  and  summer  there  has  been  no 
such  earnestness  in  any  kind  of  legislation,  save  in  the  direc- 
tion of  the  tariff,  as  has  concerned  itself  with  the  problem  of 
irrigation.  The  storm  center  of  this  question  is  at  the  same 
storm  center  which  is  known  by  the  New  West  Education 
Commission  and  the  friends  of  Mormonism.  It  is  clearly  un- 
derstood today  that  one  acre  of  the  land  such  as  is  now 
coming  under  the  influence  of  one  or  the  other  element  in  the 
far  West,  is  worth  more,  for  agricultural  purposes,  than  three 


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acres  of  land  such  as  we  have  in  the  prairies  of  Illinois,  Wis- 
consin or  Michigan.  It  is  well  understood,  also,  that  this  land, 
having  such  opportunities,  is  always  to  be  attractive  to  those 
invading  elements  coming  along  the  lines  of  latitude  far  from 
the  East  toward  the  West,  to  influence  that  future  with  their 
thought,  and  to  control  perhaps  the  markets  of  America  ulti- 
mately with  the  certainty  and  the  vastness  of  their  product. 
No  one  can  stand  in  Salt  Lake  City  with  an  intelligent  Mor- 
mon, and  see  him  point  his  finger  toward  Arizona  and  New 
Mexico,  without  feeling  that  there  is  a  well  settled  under- 
standing upon  the  part  of  that  hierarchy,  that  there  the  agri- 
cultural future  of  the  West  abides,  and  that  whatever  power 
controls  this  great  territory,  whatever  energy  takes  hold  of  the 
leadership  of  its  material  forces,  is  sure  to  influence  for  all  fu- 
ture time  the  wealth,  nay,  the  political  directions  of  thought  in 
our  beloved  America. 

You  go  to  Congress  within  the  last  six  months,  and  you 
will  find  that  perhaps  the  very  heaviest  lobby,  financially  and 
socially,  is  the  lobby  which  represents  one  side  or  the  other  of 
the  question  of  irrigation,  so  certain  are  the  strong  minds  of 
the  West  that  the  irrigable  land  of  the  West — being  yet  untried 
and  about,  the  only  unsettled  land,  and  being  at  all  events  the 
most  desirable  land— is  the  land  upon  which  either  righteous- 
ness or  unrighteousness  is  to  control  the  most  valuable  mate- 
rial resources  of  the  next  century. 

I  have  said  nothing  whatever  of  those  mines  which  rival  in 
their  actuality  the  dreams  of  Coronado,  or  those  of  the  explo- 
rers who  sent  back  to  Spain  such  brilliant  notions  of  that  West 
to1  which  they  had  come.  I  have  myself  within  the  last  year 
stood  upon  those  ruins  of  the  Casa  Grande  in  Southern  Ari- 
zona, and  looking  away  towards  Silver  City,  or  Globe  City,  the 
Spanish  Peaks  in  the  distance,  I  have  thought  of  that  wonder- 
ful civilization  which  has  left  such  remarkable  testimony  of  its 
greatness  in  that  splendid  mass.  There  are  ditches  running 
out  from  these  ruins  which  are  over  fifty  feet  long,  and  were 


seven  stories  in  height,  these  ditches  marking  the  courses  of 
flowing  streams  which  once  upon  a  time  helped  to  nourish 
300,000  people  in  that  valley.  Into  that  valley  now,  by  the 
direction  of  the  Mormon  priesthood,  the  Mormons  of  the 
North,  disenfranchised  in  Utah  and  Idaho,  are  pouring.  With 
an  almost  startling  rapidity,  the  very  best  lands,  under  irriga- 
tion by  means  of  canals  which  have  been  run  along  these  same 
old  ditches,  are  being  taken  by  men  who  have  within  their 
hearts  no  loyalty  to  the  flag,  no  respect  for  what  we  know  as 
the  Christian  home,  and  the  deepest  hatred  of  those  institu- 
tions and  inspirations  which  are  dear  to  the  heart  of  our  Chris- 
tian civilization.  There  the  Aztec  long  ages  ago  reared  his 
fields  of  wheat,  and  there,  doubtless,  built  upon  the  site-  of  this 
ruin — the  ruin  itself  a  witness  to  the  greatness  of  the  edifice 
which  he  reared — this  great  granary,  to  remain  there  certainly 
over  600  years,  to  tell  us  of  the  vast  importance  in  a  material 
point  of  view,  of  these  fields  which  stretch  far  away.  The 
Spaniards  sent  back  to  Spain,  upon  the  discovery  of  those 
ruins, 'brilliant -stories — stories  which  almost  rivaled  the  tales 
of  their  own  most  imaginative  writers — of  the  richness  of  that 
region  in  gold  and  silver;  and  today  the  best  scientists  who 
have  visited  that  part  of  the  country  tell  us  that  we  have  no 
conception  of  the  wealth  which  lies  in  the  mountains  of  New 
Mexico  and  Arizona. 

I  went  with  a  single  member  of  this  New  West  Education 
Commission  a  little  way  from  one  of  those  centers  of  light 
which  this  Association  is  making  throughout  that  Southwest, 
and  I  saw  for  myself  such  richness  hidden  within  the  earth — 
aye,  did  I  say  hidden — lying  upon  the  very  crust  of  the  planet, 
as  would  lead  one  to  conclude  that  he  had  at  least  touched 
in  reality  something  vastly  more  splendid  than  an  Arabian 
dream.  These  mines  are  waiting  to  be  touched  into  product- 
iveness, but  the  finances  which  they  represent  are  waiting  to 
be  moved  upon,  penetrated  and  dominated  by  some  kind  of 
religious  or  political  conception  which  will,  at  last,  attach  them 
to  the  very  best  interests  of  mankind.  Who  shall  have  the  op- 


portunity  of  coining  this  gold,  putting  this  silver  into  bullion, 
and  making  such  representations  to  the  future  out  of  the 
wealth  which  has  been  hoarded  in  the  past,  as  shall  enable 
them  to  control  entirely  "this  large  field  which  stretches  before 
the  feet  of  every  American  citizen  ?  The  field  within  the  last 
year  before  the  New  West  Education  Commission,  from  a 
point  of  view  entirely  material,  has  grown  to  be  a  vastly  more 
important  field  than  ever  before.  No  man  can  sit  in  the  office 
of  the  New  West  Education  Commission  and  feel  pouring  in 
upon  him  from  every  point  of  view  the  importance  of  these 
facts,  without  feeling  in  his  soul  the  prayer  that  should  stir  all 
the  churches  to  renewed  effort,  that  by  some  means  Christ's 
ideal  and  spirit*  may  be  enabled  to  dominate  with  spiritual 
impulses  these  great  material  facts. 

That  field  and  its  character  have  not  been  changed  because 
of  certain  other  changes  which  have  come  within  the  last 
twelve  months,  which  are  very  likely,  unless  they  are  thorough- 
ly understood,  to  reduce  the  enthusiasm  with  which  we  have 
hitherto  contributed  to  the  New  West  Education  Commission. 
We  are  informed  upon  every  hand  that  the  Mormon  question 
is  settled;  and  those  who  have  never  been  in  that  part  of  the 
country,  or  who  are  likely  to  suppose  that  a  series  of  •  resolu- 
tions satisfy  all  the  claims  of  conversion  or  citizenship,  inform 
us  that  the  distinct  work  of  the  New  West  Education  Com- 
mission may  have  already  been  done.  The  old  passions  which 
lie  in  the  soul  of  a  depraved  humanity  out  of  which  Mormon- 
ism  has  brought  her  enthusiasm,  are  not  dead.  No  pronunci- 
amento  of  President  Woodruff  has  taken  lust  and  iniquity  out 
of  the  human  heart ;  no  resolution  of  the  unholy  Church,  rep- 
resenting a  hierarchy  so  strong  in  its  political  affiliation,  can 
bewilder  the  eye  of  a  thoughtful  man  to  the  fact  that  the 
forces  which  underlie  Mormonism  are  the  forces  of  depraved 
human  nature,  and  that,  until  these  are  touched  by  something 
else  besides  politics,  touched  with  intelligence — aye,  touched 
with  something  far  deeper  than  may  touch  the  brain, — touched 
with  the  power  of  the  converting  Christ, — never  until  then  are 


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these  forces  likely  to  grow  in  harmony  with  the  view  of  politics,, 
or  of  the  home,  or  of  life,  which  was  born  out  of  our  own  Chris- 
tianity. It  is  the  work  of  the  New  West  Education  Comis- 
sion  to  distinctly  hold  this  ideal  before  the  consciousness  of  the 
Mormon  spirit.  It  trusts  not  to  politics  ;  it  trusts  not  even  to 
intelligence  ;  it  does  not  believe  that  the  school-house  alone 
can  accomplish  the  work  of  making  a  man  manly,  keeping  a 
woman  womanly,  filling  the  soul  of  a  child  with  ideals  that  are 
worthy  of  his  existence,  making  a  Mormon  as  loyal  and  true- a 
citizen  as  he  ought  to  be.  It  is  the  distinct  announcement  of 
this  New  West  Education  Commission  that  the  work  to  be 
done  is  the  work  of  uprooting  and  tearing  out  of  the  human 
soul  those  seeds  of  vice  and  lust  and  sin  that  lie  at  the  base 
of  all  this  disloyalty,  that  are  in  themselves  the  damnation  of 
the  Christian  home,  that  in  themselves  hold  all  the  possibilities 
of  evil,  and  distribute  those  possibilities  of  evil  into  the  minds 
and  hearts  of  the  people.  So  the  New  West  Education  Com- 
mission alone  is  unblinded  by  the  fact  that  President  Wood- 
ruff has  issued  a  certain  proclamation.  It  is  very  interesting 
to  read  this  proclamation  : 

"We  are  not  teaching  polygamy  or  plural  marriage,  nor  are 
we  permitting  any  person  to  enter  into  its  practice,  and  I  deny 
that  either  forty,  or  any  other  %  number,  of  plural  marriages 
have,  during  that  period,  been  solemnized  in  our  temples  or 
other  places  in  the  Territory.  One  case  is  reported  in  which 
the  parties'  alleged  marriage  was  performed  in  the  Endowment 
House,  in  Salt  Lake  City  in  the  spring  of  1889,  but  I  have 
not  been  able  to  learn  who  performed  the  ceremony.  What- 
ever was  done  in  this  matter  was  done  without  my  knowledge. 
In  consequence  of  this  alleged  occurrence  the  Endowment 
House  was  by  my  instructions  taken  down  without  delay. 

' '  Inasmuch  as  laws  have  been  enacted  by  Congress  prohib- 
iting plural  marriages,  which  laws  have  been  pronounced  con- 
stitutional by  the  Court  of  Last  Resort,  I  do  hereby  declare  my 
intention  to  submit  to  these  laws,  and  use  my  influence  with  the 


members  of  the  Church  over  which  I  preside  to  have  them  do 
likewise.  There  is  nothing  in  my  teachings  in  the  Church,  or 
in  those  of  my  assistants  during  the  time  specified,  that  can 
reasonably  be  construed  to  inculcate  or  encourage  polygamy, 
and  when  any  elder  of  the  Church  has  used  language  which 
appeared  to  convey  such  teachings  he  has  been  promptly  re- 
proved. And  I  now  publicly  declare  my  advice  to  the  Latter 
Day  Saints  is  :  Refrain  from  contracting  any  marriage  for- 
bidden by  the  law  of  the  land. 

WILFORD  WOODRUFF, 

' '  President  of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day 
Saints." 

I  saw  in  this  city  the  other  day  a  Mormon  who  said  to  me  : 
"You  will  notice  that  we  have  been  advised  by  our  President, 
but  the  Church  does  something  else  besides  advising.  Advice 
is  politics.  The  State  has  no  control  over  a  mind  which  has 
given  itself  to  the  Church.  We  accept  that  advice  in  the 
name  of  a  certain  contingency.  We  simply  feel  that  the  com- 
mand of  the  Church  is  to  bring  forth  children  to  the  glory  of 
God,  and  that  polygamous  marriage  lies  at  the  basis  of  our 
safety  and  our  strength  as  members  of  an  institution,  and  as 
members  of  the  Kingdom  of  God. ' ' 

You  will  notice  also  that  Mr.  George.  Q.  Cannon,  who  has 
always  had  a  singular  facility  in  interpreting  that  which  hither- 
to has  gone  uninterpreted  in  the  mind  of  the  Mormon,  has 
spoken  in  such  a  way  as^  to  indicate  that  this  advice  is  to  be 
followed  only  with  a  view  of  faithfulness  quite  consistent  with 
that  Jesuitical  method  which  is  practised  not  only  in  the  Mor- 
mon Church,  but  also  by  that  other  foe,  the  Catholic  Church. 
Mr.  Cannon,  speaking  the  other  day,  said:  "I  thank  God 
that  I  live  among  such  people;  people  that  are  not  afraid 
of  the  consequences ;  people  that  take  their  punishment  like 
heroes."  He  said,  ''The  time  is  coming  when  this  conduct 
of  the  Latter  Day  Saints  will  stand  out  as  a  bright  page  in 
modern  history.  Their  sufferings  will  be  as  acceptable  to  the 


10 

Lord  as  those  of  the  saints  of  old."  He  said  the  saints  would 
bow  in  submission  to  the  Nation's  will;  then  they  would  leave 
the  consequences  to  the  Lord.  He  told  the  people  not  to 
worry  about  '91,  because  he  was  quite  sure  that  Christ  would 
not  come  then. 

I  want  you  to  look  at  the  sickly  evidence  of  repentance 
which  lies  upon  the  lips  and  in  the  heart  of  President  Wood- 
ruff as  he  speaks  words  like  these:  "The  Lord  is  about  to 
prune  his  vineyard  for  the  last  time.' '  He  is  now  addressing 
Mormons;  in  this  announcement  he  was  addressing  the  loyal 
people  of  the  United  States.  He  says,  "  Sprouts  will  fall  like 
grain  before  the  mower;  the  martyrdom  of  Joseph  Smith  and 
the  crucifixion  of  Jesus  Christ  are  events  of  like  importance  to 
us.  I  endorse  Mr.  Cannon's  remarks,  and  I  further  say  that 
when  any  event  traspires  to  deprive  the  saints  of  their  priv- 
ileges, they  will  remember  it  as  the  will  of  Almighty  God. ' ' 

How  does  the  Church,  in  such  a  case  as  is  presented  by 
Idaho,  propose  to  hold  this  position — a  position  which  on 
one  side  is  one  of  loyalty  to  the  government,  and  on  the  other 
side  is  a  position  of  loyalty  to  the  Church  ?  The  Mormon 
question  in  Idaho  is  a  question  which  recently  has  taken 
upon  itself  new  phases,  because  of  Idaho's  new  political  im- 
portance and  position.  One  can  hardly  enter  into  the  domains 
of  that  new  commonwealth  without  finding  himself  at  once 
lodged  in  "an  entanglement  such  as  he  will  encounter  under  no 
other  circumstances,  an  entanglement  which  grows  out  of  the 
luxurious  soil  upon  which  the  hopes  of  the  Mormon  priesthood 
are  based.  The  experiment  in  disenfranchisement  is  an  ex- 
periment made  by  the  Church  with  an  oath,  the  like  of  which 
for  strength  and  for  subtlety  has  never  been  given  to  mankind 
in  the  annals  of  politics.  Let  me  read  you  this  oath, — an 
oath  perfectly  satisfactory  for  the  time  being  to  the  Mormon 
priesthood,  as  it  was  to  the  Government  at  Washington. 

' '  I  do  swear  that  I  am  not  a  bigamist  or  polygamist  ;  that 
I  am  not  a  member  of  any  order,  organization  or  association 
which  teaches,  advises,  counsels  or  encourages  its  members, 


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devotees  or  any  other  person  to  commit  the  crime  of  bigamy 
or  polygamy  or  any  other  crime  defined  by  law,  as  a  religious 
duty  or  otherwise,  and  I  hereby  resign  my  membership  in  any 
organization  or  association  which  teaches  or  practises  bigamy 
or  polygamy,  or  plural  marriage  ;  that  I  will  not  publicly  or 
privately  or  in  any  manner  teach,  advise,  counsel  or  encour- 
age any  person  to  commit  the  crime  of  bigamy  or  polygamy  or 
any  other  crime  denned  by  the  law,  either  as  a  religious  duty 
or  otherwise.  That  I  do  regard  the  Constitution  of  the  United 
States  and  the  laws  of  this  State  as  interpreted  by  the  courts, 
as  the  supreme  law  of  the  land,  the  teachings  of  any  organiza- 
tion or  association  to  the  contrary  notwithstanding.  So  help 
me  God." 

You  will  observe  that  with  President  Woodruffs  scheme, 
the  Mormon  can  regard  this  law  as  the  supreme  law  of  the  land, 
but  he  has  a  higher  law  than  this;  that  this  higher  law,  by  that 
spirit  and  practice  of  Jesuitism  which  the  church  has  so  read- 
ily taken  up,  coming  into  conflict  with  the  lower  law,  finds 
the  lower  law  easily  dominated,  and  the  Mormon  conscience 
easily  finds  itself  forgiven  of  the  offence  which  lies  upon  it,  so 
that  to-day  there  is  a  vast  system  of  forgiveness  in  Idaho.  A 
man  takes  this  oath,  sworn  as  it  seems  against  the  Church. 
The  Church  expels  him.  He  is  no  longer  a  Mormon.  So 
soon  as  he  has  accomplished  what  he  desires  to  accomplish  in 
politics,  so  soon  a's  he  has  done  what  he  desires  to  do  in  any 
of  the  cities  or  towns  or  townships  of  Idaho,  so  soon  the  Church 
forgives  him.  By  a  sort  of  repentance  which  does  not  at  all 
touch  his  conscience  uneasily,  he  is  brought  back  again  into 
the  fold  of  the  Church,  and  is  a  Mormon,  with  all  the  privileges 
of  a  Mormon,  up  to  the  time  of  the  taking  of  the  oath  again, 
when  he  ceases  to  be  a  Mormon,  then  by  another  repentance 
re-enters  the  Church. 

L.  T.  Edholm  of  Morgan  City,  Utah,  formerly  a  prominent, 
member  of  the  Mormon  Church,  is  visiting  his  son  here.    Judge 
Edholm  has  resided  in  Utah  during  the  last  twenty-nine  years. 
To  a  reporter  he  said : 


"  The  reports  in  circulation  concerning  the  intention  of  the 
Church  to  remove  its  members  to  some  other  country  where 
they  can  practise  the  teachings  of  their  religion  without  the 
interference  of  the  civil  authorities  is  scarcely  to  be  credited. 
Gentile  government  is,  of  course,  repugnant  to  the  Mormon 
leaders,  but  they  hope  to  secure  things  more  to  their  liking 
when  the  Territory  is  admitted  into  the  Union.  Then  they 
hope  to  elect  State  officials  in  accord  with  their  ideas,  and  be 
enabled  to  practise  the  teachings  of  the  Church  as  of  old. 
The  proclamation  of  President  Woodruff,  recently  published, 
in  which  he  declared  that  the  Church  had  abolished  polyg- 
amy and  advised  the  members  to  observe  the  law,  I  have 
every  reason  in  the  world  to  believe"  is  false.  While  the  Presi- 
dent published  this  notice  to  the  world  in  language  not  to  be 
•misconstrued,  it  means  altogether  a  different  thing  to  the 
faithful  members  of  the  Church.  Polygamy  is  and  will  con- 
tinue to  be  sanctioned  by  the  Church  in  secret.  This  an- 
nouncement is  made  with  a  view  of  securing  early  admittance 
as  a  State,  and  then,  by  supporting  either  political  party  from 
which  favors  can  be  gained  in  the  interest  of  the  Church, 
the  Mormons  expect  to  prosper  as  their  prophets  have  pre- 
dicted." 

There  never  was  such  a  system  of  political  lying  as  today 
is  nourished  by  the  Mormon  Church,  and  never  before,  my 
friends,  was  there  such  an  instant,  overwhelming  demand  for 
the  work  of  the  New  West  Education  Commission  to  give  to 
Idaho  and  Utah  and  New. Mexico  and  Arizona  and  all  that 
territory  a  conscience  that  must  lie  behind  the  greatness  and 
the  strength  of  American  citizenship  everywhere. 

The  Rev.  J.  W.  Hill,  pastor  of  the  First  Methodist  Church, 
at  Ogden,  Utah,  says  of  the  re-election  of  John  T.  Caine,  the 
Mormon  delegate  in  Congress :  "  He  is  simply  a  conduit 
through  which  the  power  of  Woodruff  is  carried  right  into  the 
House  and  Senate.  I  know  that  millions  of  dollars,  nowr  mark 
me,  millions  of  dollars,  have  been  poured  into  Washington 


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through  Caine  and  other  agents  of  the  Mormon  Church,  to  as- 
sist in  keeping  that  sink  of  iniquity  in  full  blast." 

But  I  look  at  the  Mormon  question  as  it  touches  Utah  and 
Idaho  as  an  exceedingly  small  question  in  comparison  with 
that  vaster  question  which  touches  you  in  Boston,  which 
touches  us  in  Chicago,  which,  today,  above  all  other  ques- 
tions in  the  State  of  Wisconsin,  makes  the  air  electric;  and 
which  this  fall  in  this  State  of  Illinois  demands  from  every 
loyal  citizen  his  utmost  concern  and  deepest  thought.  I  refer 
to  the  great  question  as  to  the  supremacy  and  permanence  of 
the  common  school  in  America,  against  the  aggressions  of  the 
Jesuit  party  as  moved  and  controlled  by  that  Italian  despot 
sitting  in  the  Vatican  at  Rome.  No  man  can  go  into  the 
Southwest  without  finding  himself  at  once  in  the  presence  of 
certain  political  questions  which  have  their  interest  largely 
trom  Rome  itself.  One  is  reminded  of  the  days  in  which  the 
Spanish  Armada  stood  before  Old  England.  He  comes  again 
upon  the  times  when  the  Jesuit,  stealing  through  Scotland  and 
Ireland,  found  himself  in  the  presence  of  a  king  ready  to  at- 
tach the  fortunes  of  Rome  to  his  own  fortunes; — the  Jesuit, 
who  found  himself  later  in  the  presence  of  Oliver  Cromwell, 
who  met  him  at  Dunbar  and  Edge  Hill  and  Marston  Moor 
as  certainly  as  he  met  the  Scotch,  Irish,  or  representatives  of 
the  English  throne. 

The  Jesuit  party  in  Boston  have  pursued  a  certain  line  of 
attack  which  has  been  met  with  such  earnestnessnon  the  part 
of  the  citizens  of  the  Commonwealth  as  to  give  Boston  her  old 
importance  again,— the  importance  which  she  had  in  the  days  of 
Sam  Adams,  James  Otis  and  Joseph  Warren.  But  the  Jesuit 
attack  in  the  Southwest,  far  more  earnest,  upon  ground 
which  has  never  yet  been  successfully  disputed,  is  an  attack 
which  meets  almost  alone  this  New  West  Commission, — our 
splendid  Joan  D'Arc,  clad  in  the  immaculate  glory  of  her  spirit, 
consecrated  before  Christ,  riding  her  white  charger  fearlessly 
and  boldly  into  the  ranks  of  the  enemy,—  the^New  West  Edu- 
cation Commission,  which  is  teaching  the  New  South  as  no 


other  force  can  teach  it,  the  absolute  necessity  and  the  moral 
grandeur  of  the  American  common  schools.  (Applause.)  Your 
secretary  has  already  told  you  that  it  was  impossible  for  us  to 
supply  the  necessities  of  territories  in  that  region  by  making 
common  schools,  and  that  for  a  long  time  these  schools  must 
continue  to  represent  the  movement  and  the  impulse  of  Chris- 
tianity in  the  North  and  in  the  East.  On  that  subject,  let  us 
for  a  moment  consider  what  it  means  that — just  the  other  day — 
New  Mexico  has  lost  her  prospect  of  being  a  state  because  the 
Catholic  power  in  the  Southwest  determined  that  New  Mexico 
should  not  become  a  state  with  the  common  schools. 

Every  man  who  knows  the  politics  of  the  Southwest,  un- 
derstands perfectly  well  that  New  Mexico,  in  wealth,  in  politi- 
ical  importance,  in  vast  openings  from  which  come  the  hopes 
of  a  great  financial  future,  in  every  way  is  worthy  of  state- 
hood, if  only  she  has  the  common  school  to  guide  her  people, 
to  instruct  her  children,  to  pour  the  elements  of  republicanism 
and  democracy  into  the  child's  breast,  to  give  him  a  love  of 
self-government,  to  make  him  absolutely  free  of  the  autocracy 
of  any  foreign  power,  to  assist  him  to  that  kind  of  thought  which 
will  make  him  feel  that  every  thread  of  the  flag  means  the  fu- 
ture of  a  better  humanity.  But  eight  months  ago  the  Roman 
Catholic  hierarchy  saw,  that,  if  New  Mexico  went  into  the  Union 
at  all,  she  must  go  in  with  this  common  school.  The  Pope  of 
Rome  has  always  understood  that  the  common  school  was  op- 
posed to  the  dictatorial  nature  and  arrogance  of  the  Vatican. 
He  knows  that  today  the  common  school  stands  between  him 
and  rulership  in  the  nineteenth  century.  Whatever  parties 
may  do,  as  at  Poughkeepsie,  New  York,  with  respect  to  public 
schools;  whatever  an  unjust  law  may  do  with  regard  to  fining 
Rev.  E.  Walpole  Warren  $1,000  for  becoming  rector  of  Holy 
Trinity  Church  of  New  York,  and  allowing  thirty  foreign 
priests  to  come  in  to  preach  and  teach  Romanism,  without  a 
fine; — whatever  may  be  done  by  a  venal  and  unjust  party  policy 
to  hold  the  Roman  Catholic  vote,— the  common  school  today 
stands  as  the  one  great  barrier  through  wjiich  the  Pope  may  not 


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ride  to  power  in  this  land.  (Applause. )  This  was  seen  so  clearly 
in  the  Southwest,  that  on  that  old  ground  which  Protestantism 
has  never  yet  tried  to  control,  the  papacy  recently  erected  its 
barriers  against  the.  admission  of  New  Mexico  to  statehood. 
The  question  involved  the  reception  or  the  rejection  of  their 
state  constitution.  It  was  a  constitution  drawn  so  clearly  fa- 
vorable toward  the  public  schools  by  every  affection  that 
brought  it  into  existence,  that  the  papal  power  at  once  de- 
manded its  defeat.  From  Romish  priests  orders  were  spread 
over  New  Mexico,  which  I  was  told  by  Catholics  themselves  that 
they  dared  not  disobey.  Merchants  of  New  Mexico  have  been 
boycotted  by  their  Catholic  friends.  The  old  Mexico,  repre- 
senting that  ancient  Spain  of  the  Armada; — ancient  Spain,  be- 
fore which  William  of  Orange  proposed  to  level  the  dykes  of 
Holland, — that  old  Mexico,  coming  up  into  our  new  dominions, 
demanded  that  this  constitution  should  suffer  a  serious  de- 
feat. If  today  New  Mexico  will  abandon  the  common  school , 
the  Catholic  hierarchy  will  place  her  among  the  list  of  states. 
Without  the  common  school,  she  has  the  Catholic  vote  ;  with 
the  common  school,  she  has  no  political  importance.  The 
New  Wes.t  Education  Commission  at  Albuquerque,  at  various 
places  in  New  Mexico  and  the  Southwest,  stands  as  the  proph- 
etess o'f  the  coming  common  schools.  She  stands  guarding, 
before  the  minds  of  that  priest-ridden  people,  a  school  so  rich 
in  hopes  for  their  children  that  it  is  impossible  for  them  to 
omit  to  see  the  richness,  the  beauty  of  this  new  educational 
force.  They  cannot  help  but  see,  I  say,  how  strongly  the  pub- 
lic school  means  to  guarantee  the  best  interests  of  mankind. 

Who  is  the  county  superintendent  in  the  Southwest?  You 
will  find  him  a  priest.  Ask  how  the  school  funds  are  raised 
where  there  is  a  common  school,  and  they  will  tell  you,  by 
private  subscription.  It  is  entirely  impossible,  even  by  the 
present  laws  of  New  Mexico  and  Arizona,  to  create  a  school 
fund.  In  both  of  these  territories,  the  two  richest  territories  in 
the  Union,  in  my  judgment,  the  territories  that  more  th,an 
any  other  in  this  Union  will  repeat  the  financial  miracles  of 


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Southern  California,  it  is  impossible,  I  say,  to  stir  any  sort  of 
public  interest  in  a  common  school,  without  opposition  of  the 
priesthood. 

These  representatives  of  our  New  America, — the  represent- 
atives of  our  New  West  Education  Commission— stand  there- 
fore with  the  dawn  upon  their  foreheads,  with  the  morning  in 
their  hearts,  with  the  whole  future  of  our  common  American- 
ism in  their  hands.  No  such  advance  guard  ever  lived  as  the 
advance  guard  for  the  protection  of  the  common  schools;  no 
representatives  of  that  brave  army  who  will  hold  this  institu- 
tion'to  republicanism,  to  Americanism,  to  human  hope,  have 
surpassed  our  beloved  representatives  of  this  New  West  Edu- 
cation Commission.  (Applause.) 


Address  of  Prof,  Henru  E.  Gordon, 


"  The  polity  of  the  Church  of  Rome  is  the  very  masterpiece 
of  human  wisdom.  Experience  of  1200  eventful  years,  the 
ingenuity  and  patient  care  of  forty  generations  of  statesmen, 
have  improved  that  polity  to  such  perfection, 'that  among  the 
contrivances  which  have  been  devised  for  deceiving  and  con- 
trolling mankind  it  occupies  the  highest  place."  These  are 
the  words  of  the  historian,  Macaulay. 

And  mark  you,  the  aim  of  this  concentrated  wisdom  of  the 
centuries,  this  accumulation  of  vast  ecclesiastical  force,  is  not 
to  publish  the  truth.  It  carries  no  banner  upon  which  is  a 
motto  like  this:  "The  Truth,  regardless  of  consequences  ;" 
nor  is  its  aim  to  educate  the  masses  of  the  people  with  whom 
it  comes  in  contact, — witness  New  Mexico,  where  it  has  had 
control  for  nearly  300  years  ;  nor  yet  is  it  to  spread  the  glad 
news  of  the  Gospel  in  its  purity  and  simplicity, — witness  a 
rosary  with  ten  prayers  to  the  Virgin  to  one  to  God  ;  nor  is 
it  to  give  the  Bible  to  mankind, — witness  its  record  for  the 
past  500  years. 

What  then  is  its  aim  ? 


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It  is  to  build  up  the  Roman  Catholic  Church  ;  to  know 
nothing  but  the  Roman  Catholic  Church  ;  to  keep  the  masses 
in  such  a  state  of  ignorance  and  superstition  as  shall  make 
them  willing  dupes  of  the  Roman  Catholic  Chnrch  ;  to  bring 
the  world  to  the  feet,  not  of  a  crucified  Saviour,  but  to  the  feet 
of  an  infallible  Pope  and  a  deified  Virgin. 

The  fond  dream  of  Mormonism  is  to  found  an  empire  in 
the  very  heart  of  this  Republic, — an  empire  which  shall  ulti- 
mately control  the  world.  Romanism's  dearest  wish  today  is 
to  have  America  within  the  scope  of  its  power. 

The  desire  is  the  same  in  both  cases.  One  works  from 
within,  the  other  both  from  within  and  without.  The  position 
of  the  Roman  Catholic  Church  in  America  as  it  stands  today 
arouses  the  profoundest  emotions  of  alarm  in  all  true  patriots. 

New  Mexico  is  peculiarly  under  the  power  of  Romanism. 
Her  more  enlightened  people  desire  statehood.  They  framed 
a  constitution  which,  upon  the  subject  of  popular  education, 
proposed  a  measure  which  would  grace  the  constitution  of  any 
State  in  the  Union.  Last  week  that  constitution  was  rejected 
by  an  overwhelming  majority. 

And  this  brings  me  to  the  very  heart  of  the  matter. 

The  Negro  is  practically  disfranchised,  and  a  vote  is  wholly 
denied  to  the  Indian  and  Chinaman,  and  yet  we  are  now  do- 
ing a  great  work  arnqng  these  people,  and  must  do  a  greater. 
What,  then,  ought  we  to  do  for  our  fellow  citizen,  the  Mexi- 
can ?  He  carries  a  ballot  in  his  hand,  and  every  ballot  counts 
for  Rome. 

My  friends,  do  you  fully  realize  the  degradation  and  super- 
stition of  the  masses  of  the  Mexican  people  ?  A  brief  descrip- 
tion of  that  organization  known  as  the  Penitentes,  as  I  my- 
self have  seen  it,  will  give  you  as  nothing  else  can,  an  idea  of 
the  condition  of  the  people  who  for  so  long  a  time  have  been 
under  the  absolute  dominion  of  the  Church  of  Rome. 

Just  at  dawn  upon  Good  Friday  a  party  of  us  upon  fleet  In- 
dian ponies  visited  one  of  the  lodges.  We  remained  in  con- 


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cealment  near  the  lodge  until  the  members  of  the  order  ap- 
peared. Two  were  stripped  to  the  waist.  Their  backs  were 
then  scored  until  the  blood  ran.  Whips  were  then  placed  in 
their  hands.  With  these  they  beat  themselves  as  they  march 
away  over  the  hills.  These  whips  consist  of  a  bag  filled  with 
cactus  and  stones  fastened  to  a  stick  about  two  feet  long. 
Every  blow  of  these  instruments  draws  blood. 

The  company  halted,  and  one  of  the  self-torturers  handed 
his  bloody  whip  to  a  companion,  and  with  bare  hands  dug  up 
a  bed  of  prickly  pear, — a  species  of  cactus, — and  wrapped  it 
about  his  bleeding  back,  and  the  march  was  resumed.  At 
every  step  those  thorns  must  have  penetrated  the  flesh  with  a 
poisonous  sting. 

Sometimes  as  many  as  sixteen  gather  about  a  cross  to 
which  is  tied  one  of  their  number,  and  circle  about  it  as  they 
beat  themselves.  In  parts  of  New  Mexico  these  performances 
are  carried  on  at  the  Roman  Catholic  churches.  The  order 
has  a  membership  of  20,000  in  the  Southwest,  and  has  re- 
ceived the  formal  blessing  of  the  Pope. 

Again  I  say,  we  are  face  to  face  with  the  question,  "  How 
are  we  to  evangelize  our  Mexican  fellow  citizen  ? "  Shall  we 
invoke  civil  laws  ?  Some  say,  "  No."  For  conscience' s  sake 
and  our  country's  sake,  we  say,  "  No !  "  Shall  we  plant 
churches-? 

In  attending  the  meeting  of  the  American  Board  during  the 
past  week,  I  listened  with  amazement  to  the  appeals  from 
missionaries.  Every  man  whom  I  heard,  and  I  heard  nearly 
all,  pleaded  with  tremendous  urgency  for  Christian  education. 
"Oh!  for  $10,000  with  which  to  build  a  college,''  cried  one;  "The 
young  people  under  my  charge  eagerly  desire  an  education," 
said  another.  The  most  startling  assertion  made  was  the 
statement  that  two  young  girls  of  twelve  deliberately  com- 
mitted suicide  because  denied  an  education. 

Plant  churches  !  Why  the  people  are  not  ready  for  them. 
Plant  a  church  in  a  purely  Mexican  community  in  New  Mexico 
and  you  arouse  not  only  the  hostility  of  the  priest  but  of  the 


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people  as  well  ;  but  plant  a  school  in  the  same  community  ; 
put  at  its  head  a  loving,  motherly  woman,  and  with  her  gen- 
tleness, her  neighborly  ways,  her  modern  methods  of  teaching, 
her  music,  and  above  all  with  her  consecrated  Christian  spirit, 
she  will  receive  a  cordial  welcome  from  the  people.  The 
priest  may  threaten  excommunication,  but  the  teacher  will 
win,  and  lay  solid,  deep  foundations  for  a  church. 

The  answer  then  which  Congregationalism  is  making  to  the 
question,  * 'How  shall  we  meet  paganism  and  semi-paganism?" 
is,  "By  Christian  Education." 

With  five  Christian  institutions  at  the  important  points 
along  the  line  of  the  Santa  Fe  Railroad,  reaching  from 
Colorado  to.  Old  Mexico,  a  distance  of  500  miles ;  with  four 
similar  institutions  in  the  heart  of  Utah,  with  common  schools 
clustered  about  these  centers,  the  New  West  Education  Com- 
mission holds  the  ground  in  the  New  West.  . 

The  leaders  in  those  schools  are  crying  to  you  for  help. 
The  means  employed  today  are  wholly  inadequate.  The 
higher  institutions  should  be  endowed,  and  the  money  now 
expended  in  their  maintenance  given  to  common  schools 
near  them. 

In  the  old  ante-bellum  days  we  sent  thousands  of  men  into 
Kansas.  They  carried  rifles  in  their  hands  and  a  love  of  free- 
dom in  their  hearts.  They  were  men  who  were  all  back-bone. 
In  the  roll  of  commonwealths  today  what  State  answers  to 
the  call  which  shows  a  cleaner,  purer,  nobler  record  upon 
every  great  moral  issue  than  this  same  State  of  Kansas.  We 
appeal  to  the  evangelical  churches  today  to  send  thousands 
of  men  and  women  into  Utah  and  New  Mexico  with  the  spell- 
ing book  in  their  hands  and  the  love  of  Christ  in  their  hearts. 
Fifty  years  hence,  when  the  roll  of  States  shall  be  called  again, 
New  Mexico  and  Utah  will  stand  with  the  proudest  of  them 
all,  pointing  with  just  exultation  to  their  position  among  the 
evangelical  Christian  commonwealths  of  America. 

A  few  years  more,  and  Chicago  will  ring  with  the  praises  of 
Columbus  as  the  discoverer  of  America. 


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I  yield  to  no  one  in  my  admiration  for  the  intelligent  and 
daring  fanaticism  of  the  great  Italian,  but  we  of  the  southwest 
will  rejoice  that  Columbus  did  not  discover  America,  or,  at 
least,  that  part  of  it  which  gives  tone  and  character  to  the 
word  American. 

We  thank  God  that  America  is  still  Protestant;  and  it  re- 
mains for  the  churches  to  say  how  long  it  shall  remain  so. 
Twenty  years  more  will  see  the  decision  of  this  great  matter. 
To-day  our  duty  is  plain;  to-'^norro^v  may  be  too  late  to  fulfil  it. 

Address  of  Rev.  William  Frederick  Slocum,  Jr., 

PRESIDENT  COLORADO  COLLEGE. 


When  Virginia  made  her  gift  of  the  great  Northwest  to  the 
Union,  she  little  dreamed  of  the  magnitude  of  her  offering,  or 
of  the  great  part  it  was  to  play  in  the  development  of  the 
country.  No  more  did  Jefferson,  far  sighted  as  was  his  states- 
manship, realize  the  importance  of  his  act  when  he  consummated 
his  great  purchase  from  the  First  Napoleon.  Neither  this 
gifted  political  leader  nor  the  descendants  of  the  Cavaliers 
realized  that  these  great  sections  of .  the  United  States  would, 
within  so  short  a  time,  occupy  so  important  a  place  in  our 
national  thought. 

Nor  do  we  more  than  begin  to  comprehend  the  forces  that 
are  at  work  fashioning  this  New  West  into  an  empire  more 
marvelous  in  its  possibilities  than  the  dreams  of  the  empires  of 
the  Orient. 

For  good  or  for  ill,  there  is  developing  by  the  side  of  our 
great  Rocky  Mountain  Range,  and  within  sight  of  its  snowy 
summits,  a  most  important  part  of  our  country,  that  might  be 
a  nation  by  itself  were  it  not  bound  by  ties  of  affection  and 
obligation  and  loyalty  to  the  great  nation  of  which  it  is  a 
part.  Its  resources  are  boundless,  its  material  achievement  will 
ultimately  surprise  the  world,  and  its  influence  upon  the  coun- 
cils of  the  nation  will  be  far  reaching  and  weighty. 


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The  indications  of  a  well  defined  civilization  are  constantly 
becoming  more  marked  in  the  East.  Its  institutions  are  estab- 
lished ;  its  social  life  is  marked  by  a  spirit  strongly  characteristic 
of  older  states.  Method,  regularity,  orderliness,  are  more  appar- 
ent with  every  decade.  New  England  and  Old  England  grow 
together  each  year  ;  their  social  customs,  their  movements  in 
political  and  literary  life,  show  a  striking  similarity  of  tendency. 
The  town  and  city  life  of  New  York,  Baltimore  and  Philadelphia, 
and  the  states  which  they  represent,  partake  of  those  charac- 
teristics which  mark  the  still  older  towns  and  cities  of  Europe. 

The  great  Middle  West  is  fast  losing  those  peculiarities, 
which  have  always  been  associated  with  a  new  country,  and 
especially  with  a  pioneer  life.  The  factories,  the  railroads,  the 
well  ordered  towns  and  mighty  cities,  already  indicate  an  estab- 
lished economy  of  human  life.  Great  religious  and  educa- 
tional institutions  are  receiving  your  attention  and  your  gifts. 

Beyond  the  great  plains  which  stretch  to  the  westward  is, 
however,  this  other  section  of  our  country. 

The  problem  we  meet  to  consider  is  this  :  How  can  this 
New  West  be  so  moulded  by  Christian  education  that  it  shall 
do  its  part  in  fulfilling  the  destiny  of  our  beloved  country  ? 
Have  you  noticed  that  as  the  old  idea  of  the  sovereignty  of 
the  state  is  passing  out  of  our  national  consciousness,  we 
speak  more  and  more  of  the  great  sections  of  our  country  ?  It 
is  the  "Northwest,"  the  "  Southwest,"  the  "Middle  West," 
the  "  New  West,"  the  "Pacific  Slope  ;"  and  each  of  these  great 
divisions  of  our  country  has  its  special  political,  economic, 
educational  and  religious  problems. 

When  the  faculty  of  Colorado  College  and  a  few  other 
Christian  men  organized  this  New  West  Education  Commis- 
sion, it  was  for  the  purpose  of  dealing  with  the  religious  and 
educational  problems  of  the  New  West  ;  and  nobly  has  this 
society  entered  into  its  labors.  No  one  can  estimate  the  good 
it  has  already  accomplished,  and  much  less  can  any  of  us 
measure  the  labor  that  yet  remains  for  it  to  undertake. 

Doubtless  there   are   those  who,  as  they  regard   its   mission 


with  superficial  thought  and  narrow  sympathies,  see  only  a 
few  hundreds  or  thousands  of  students  in  school  rooms  in  New 
Mexico,  Arizona,  Utah  or  Idaho,  taught  by  men  and  women 
whom  they  admire  a  little  and  pjty  a  great  deal  more. 

On  the  other  hand,  there  are  large  minds  and  large  hearts 
who  see  in  these  schools  the  forces  by  which  God  is  saving 
our  New  West  to  its  great  destiny.  To  such,  this  work  is  a 
great  trust ;  they  thankfully  perceive  that  He  permits  them 
through  their  wealth  and  their  strength  to  be  co-workers  with 
the  great  Master  Himself,  who  says  to  them,  "The  fields  are 
white." 

The  problems  which  confront  this  society  in  its  noble  work 
are  somewhat  different  from  those  that  must  be  met  in  other 
sections  of  our  country. 

The  New  Mexico  field  in  which  we  work  is  unique.  Here  is 
an  old  civilization  face  to  face  with  the  new.  In  this  territory 
are  scores  of  villages  where  a  foreign  language,  foreign  institu- 
tions, foreign  teachers,  foreign  priests,  are  holding  the  people 
in  ignorance  of  our  government  and  those  principles  which 
have  made  our  Republic. 

Only  a  few  weeks  ago  I  was  in  New  Mexico  when  its  best 
citizens  were  working  vigorously  for  a  law  that  should  estab- 
lish a  free  school  system. 

That  afternoon  I  spent  in  a  Mexican  village  where  we  could 
not  find  a  person  who  spoke  English,  and  where  the  only 
apology  for  a  school  was  held  in  a  wretched  adobe  building 
into  which  the  light  came  only  through  the  doorless  doorway, 
and  whose  teacher  could  not  speak  a  word  of  the  English 
language  ;  and  yet  he  was  training  American  citizens.  I  was 
told  by  those  who  know  that  this  was  one  of  the  best  of  those 
village  schools,  and  that  many  of  the  teachers  themselves  can 
neither  read  nor  write,  which  is  proven  by  the  fact  that  when 
signing  receipts  for  their  salary,  they  frequently  have  to  make 
their  mark  ;  and  that  really  the  schools  are  not  schools  at  all, 
unless  showing  the  children  how  to  make  fancy  Mexican  fig- 


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ures  on  cloth,  or  how  to  go  through  the  forms  of  a  narrowing 
religion,  can  be  called  school  room  instruction. 

I  need  say  little  of  our  problem  in  Utah.  Here  it  is  not  the 
last  traces  of  an  Aztec  civilization  corrupted  by  a  false  idea  of 
Christianity,  but  paganism,  with  which  we  are  battling.  By 
whatever  name  it  may  be  called,  it  represents  those  forces 
which  gave  paganism  its  power.  It  is  the  worship  of  sensu- 
ousness  and  selfishness.  At  heart  it  is  false,  corrupt,  devilish. 
Do  not  not  place  any  confidence  in  its  protestations  till  you 
have  changed  its  heart.  I  have  no  time  today  to  show  you 
how  its  last  utterances  are  not  to  be  trusted,  but  are  only 
pretensions  made  for  political  ends. 

The  landing  in  New  York  of  two  hundred  fresh  victims 
on  the  eve  of  this  declaration  was  rather  unfortunate  in  estab- 
lishing faith  in  this  recent  show  of  virtue.  Let  us  not  think 
that  the  power  of  the  system  is  broken.  The  only  hope  for 
this  poor,  blind  people,  led  by  their  blind  guides,  is  to  trans- 
form their  souls  by  Christian  education. 

The  means  by  which  the  movement  this  society  represents 
is  to  pass  on  to  its  desired  fruition,  will  be  Christian  leader- 
ship. Two  things  must  be  done  which  really  resolve  them- 
selves into  one.  To  this  people  must  be  brought  those  ideas 
of  Christian  liberty  that  have  been  the  corner  stone  of  our  Re- 
public, and  this  must  be  done  through  the  personality  of  con- 
secrated men  and  women.  It  is  not  within  the  province  or 
the  ability  of  this  society  to  reach  directly  all  the  people  of 
this  New  West  who  need  help  and  guidance  ;  but  to  touch 
the  lives  of  enough  to  create  a  body  of  intelligent  leaders  who 
sjiall  transform  these  sections  of  our  country,  is  its  mission. 

No  more  important  work  is  done  by  the  New  West  Educa- 
tion Commission  than  that  of  developing  and  upholding  acad- 
emies— schools  of  high  grade  that  gather  together  the  choicest 
young  men  and  women  in  these  new  states  and  territories,  and 
fit  them  to  fashion  the  life  and  thought  of  the  community  in 
which  they  make  their  homes. 

That  noble   Christian   educator,  Thomas  Arnold,  said  that 


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his  work  was  not  to  educate  the  masses  of  the  English  nation, 
but  rather  to  create  leaders  who  should  fashion  its  religious, 
political  and  social  institutions.  And  how  true  it  has  been  that 
the  men  who  came  under  his  influence,  went  forth  to  become 
the  leaders  in  the  life  of  the  British  nation.  This  is  the  work 
that  lies  before  you.  Into  these  schools  of  higher  grade  you 
are  gathering  those  whose  lives  shall  solve  the  problems  that 
confront  us  in  this  work. 

Let  me  illustrate.  There  comes  to  my  mind  a  city  in  which 
there  is  one  of  these  academies.  This  place  is  under  the  po- 
litical control  of  a  man  who  made  his  money  by  selling  liquor 
and  keeping  a  gambling  hell.  His  life  is  a  notoriously  bad 
one.  The  social  life  of  this  same  city  is  dominated  by  a  wo- 
man of  unworthy  character,  but  she  is  now  the  wife  of  the 
man  to  whom  I  have  referred.  What  is  the  hope  for  this  city  ? 
We  cannot  and  need  not  reach  directly  all  the  children  of  this 
city  in  the  New  West  Academy,  but  the  older  and  choicest 
young  men  and  women  are  in  the  academy,  and  out  from  its 
halls  they  are  going  to  form  a  group  of  men  and  women  who 
will  stand  for  purity  in  politics,  in  social  and  religious  life. 

They  must  form  a  new  life,  new  sentiments,  new  ideals,  in 
that  city.  By  their  manner  of  life,  by  their  brave  stand  for 
right,  by  the  creation  of  a  true  class  distinction,  founded  on 
moral  worth,  they  must  make  a  party  that  will  take  politics 
out  of  the  control  of  the  saloon  and  the  gambling  hell  ;  they 
must  create  a  social  life  whose  spirit  and  character  writes  over 
its  portals,  "  Would  you  be  in  the  companionship  of  nobles, 
make  yourself  noble,  and  you  shall  be." 

In  short,  the  mission  of  these  graduates  is  that  of  trans- 
forming the  whole  social  and  political  life  of  the  communities 
in  which  they  live.  Slowly  and  surely  this  work  is  being  done 
throughout  our  New  West ;  this  is  the  mission  of  these  Christian 
academies.  You  cannot  exaggerate  their  importance. 

From  them,  too,  are  to  come  to  our  Colorado  College  for 
still  higher  education,  the  choicest  students,  both  young  men 
and  young  women,  whom  we  will  send  back  to  be  teachers  in 


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the  school-room  and  the  pulpit,  and  who  are  to  stand,  in 
public  and  in  private,  in  professional  or  business  life,  for  the 
ideas  and  the  morality  that  ever  have  been  the  bulwark  of 
our  civilization. 

It  appears  to  me,  after  studying  the  needs  of  our  New  West, 
that  there  is  nothing  in  all  the  important  work  of  this  society 
so  far  reaching  in  its  opportunity,  as  fhe  work  of  these  acade- 
mies, and  my  only  regret  in  connection  with  them  is  that  the 
funds  are  not  at  hand  to  develop  this  work  into  much  larger 
proportions. 

The  Christian  character  of  the  work  of  this  society,  ought 
also,  I  believe,  to  be  strongly  emphasized.  I  am  one  of  those 
students  of  American  history  who  cannot  lose  sight  of  the  fact 
that  Christianity  has  had  much  to  do  with  our  civil  system 
aside  from  erecting  meeting  houses,  building  churches,  and 
sending  missionaries  to  pagans. 

I  cannot  lose  sight  of  those  ideas  born  of  a  study  of  the 
New  Testament,  which  set  Wycliffe  writing  his*  leaflet  in 
England, — ideas  that  found  their  way  into  a  monk's  cell  in 
Italy  till  Savonarola's  soul  burned  with  the  idea  of  a  republic 
founded  on  the  conception  of  the  liberty  and  worth  of  the  in- 
dividual; ideas  that  when  the  fagots  were  piled  about  him, 
found  their  way  into  the  soul  of  another  monk  who  dared  to 
nail  his  theses  on  the  church  door  of  Wurtemberg;  ideas  that 
the  fires  of  St  Bartholomew's  night  could  not- destroy;  ideas 
that  have  made  a  new  political  science;  which  made  the 
English  constitution;  which  fashioned  Puritan  England  and 
Pilgrim  New  England;  ideas  that  are  the  genius  of  our  con- 
stitution and  the  soul  of  our  whole  political  fabric. 

My  friends,  I  cannot  enter  very  fully  into  any  movement 
that  ignores  a  religion  which  has  given  to  men  the  only  safe 
ideas  of  civil  liberty  the  world  has  ever  known.  I  cannot 
believe  that  we  shall  ever  really  solve  the  problems  of  our 
New  West,  with  the  ignorance  of  its  Mexican  people  and  the 
paganism  of  its  Mormon  population,  except  by  a  Christian 
education. 


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We  need  a  public  school  system  in  every  state  and  territory. 
Our  last  Congress  lost  a  golden  opportunity  when  it  failed  to 
pass  the  Perkins  educational  bill  which  would  have  given  a 
free  public  school  system  to  New  Mexico,  and  set  every  child 
in  that  great  territory  to  learning  the  English  language  and 
the  fundamental  principles  of  our  government.  I  work  gladly 
and  with  enthusiasm  for  our  public  school  system,  but  I  do 
not  think  it  can  do  all  the  work  that  is  demanded.  We  need, 
side  by  side  with  the  public  schools,  advanced  institutions, 
independent  of  any  political  control,  ivhose  business  it  is  to 
bear  tJie  principles  and  the  personal  duties  of  our  Christian 
faith  into  the  souls  of  their  pupils, 

There  is  not  a  political,  social  or  economic  problem  con- 
fronting us  in  these  days,  which,  in  its  last  analysis,  does 
not  find  its  solution  in  the  ideas  and  the  ideals  of  Christian 
ethics.  There  is  not  a  problem  in  our  New  West  that  can  be 
solved  except  by  these  same  ideas,  and  an  education  which 
first  of  all  sets  loyalty  to  Christ  as  the  supreme  motive  in  life. 

Morning  after  morning  as  I  look  into  the  faces  of  my  stu- 
dents, as  I  think  of  the  work  of  the  schools  of  the  New  West 
Education  Commission,  as  I  know  something  of  the  devotion 
of  their  teachers,  of  their  labors,  their  hopes  and  their  fears, 
my  prayer  centers  in  this  one  petition  :  "God  grant  that  these 
students  may  live  not  unto  themselves,  but  so  that  they  may 
bear  Thy  truth  .and  Thyself  to  others." 

My  friends,  in  many  places  within  the  reach  of  the,  work  of 
this  society  are  poor,  empty,  narrow,  wasted  lives ;  on  these 
same  wasted  lives  is  being  built  a  social  and  political  system 
that  turns  its  face  away  from  all  that  has  made  our  institu- 
tions and  blessed  our  land.  Will  you  go  down  to  them  with 
your  Christian  schools  ;  inspire  them  with  noble  ideals  and  a 
pure  life  ? 

To  bear  to  all  these  the  story  of  the  Christ  in  its  truth  ;  to 
give  them  the  truths  on  which  are  built  our  Christian  homes ; 
to  burn  into  their  souls  the  ideas  that  have  made  Christian 
England  and  Christian  America ;  the  ideas  which  build  our 


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home  missionary  churches  and  send  missionaries  to  foreign 
lands  ;  which  build  our  Christian  colleges  ; — to  preach  to  these, 
the  children  of  our  common  Father,  through  Christian  schools, 
is  our  privilege  and  our  mission.  To  this  work,  I  pray  you, 
give  your  prayers  and  counsel,  and  consecrate  your  wealth. 


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